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Originally Posted by DarkFish
ehm, the nazis did not invent any differences, with most western-european countries they instead hammered on being quite similar! They invaded Holland 'cause we Dutchmen are germanic people too and thus needed to join Germany in some huge germanic super-state.
Or that's what they told... It's much more likely Hitler was just a megalomane psychopath aching for even more land to control...
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My recall of western European history makes nearly all the peoples Germanic in origin. The barbarian invasion into the waning Western Roman Empire was made up of many Germanic tribes as in the Vandals, Visigoths, Ostragoths, Angels, Saxons, Lombardi, Franks, Burgundians, Alemanni, etc. These people eventually were absorbed into the Latin Catholic Church's sphere of influence. The pre-nation states of Neustria and Austrassia were formed as part of the Kingdom of the Franks which preshadowed modern France and Germany. Conversational latin diverged into french, spanish, italian, german and english. It's really pretty much just the Mohammedans and Celts that are not Germanic.
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